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• Randy Michaels Replaces Sam Zell As Tribune CEO; Zell Stays As Chairman

  PaidContent - 2009-12-02

  Two years, billions of dollars and one bankruptcy later, Sam Zell is out as CEO of Tribune Co. In his place and at his recommendation: Randy Michaels, who has been part of Tribune’s management since Zell took it private in December 207 and has been COO since mid-2008. Michaels...

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• Tribune Creditors Continue To Challenge Reorg Plan

  PaidContent - 2009-11-25

  Tribune Company management’s bid to maintain control beyond a bankruptcy court deadline is being challenged by its various creditors, E&P reports, citing court filings. With Tribune management’s “exclusive control” under chairman and CEO Sam Zell set to expire at the end of this month, the company asked the bankruptcy...

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• Tribune Management Seeks Extension On Reorg Plan

  PaidContent - 2009-11-16

  Tribune Company management under Sam Zell has sought an extension on its “exclusivity” to come up with a plan to emerge from bankruptcy, Chicago Tribune reported. The company made its request in a bankruptcy court filing, which indicated that if its request is approved, Tribune could come out of...

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• Bankrupt Tribune Co. Experiments Going "AP-Free"

  BNET - 2009-11-04

  The Tribune Co., which continues to operate under Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, announced that it is going to try to fill its newspapers, including the Chicago Tribune and the Los Angeles Times, without using any content from the Associated Press during the week of November 8. by David Weir

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• Nonprofit Texas Tribune Launches With Budget Covered For Two Years

  PaidContent - 2009-11-03

  Monday evening as the Texas Tribune raced toward its launch this morning (some elements aren’t live yet), Editor-in-Chief Evan Smith took me through the new nonprofit journalism site—news stories, databases, blogs, a combined Twitter feed for every elected politician in Texas, the start of a Texas politics wiki. Unlike...

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• Tribune Goes On A Diet?No AP News For One Week

  PaidContent - 2009-11-03

  The Tribune Company’s chain of newspapers will try to see if they can do without the Associated Press news feed next week, as the bankrupt publisher tries to find ways it can manage costs, The Chicago Tribune reported via mathewi. The Tribune’s trial separation from the AP starts next...

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• Online publishing firm Godengo raises USD2.1m

  Strategy Eye - 2009-10-28

  Online publishing firm Godengo has raised USD2.1m from undisclosed investors. The company specialises in helping regional and lifestyle magazines overcome web publishing problems. Founded in 2004, Godengo is located in Emeryville, California and its clients include The Tribune Company and...

  Tags: Web-publishing, Editorial, Tribune Co.

• Tribune Looks To 'Universal Registration' For Ad Targeting Across Its Websites

  PaidContent - 2009-10-26

  Tribune Company is working on having users across its several newspaper websites sign in with a “universal registration” that is designed to make it easier for advertisers to target users. Don Meek, president of Tribune365, the company’s national sales unit, mentioned the plan to AdAge as an example of...

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• Bankruptcy Court Clears Sun Times Sale to Tyree

  PaidContent - 2009-10-09

  As expected, investor Jim Tyree’s $26.5 million bid for the Sun Times Media Group has gotten the approval of the bankruptcy court overseeing the Chicago newspaper chain’s chapter 11 proceedings, the Chicago Sun Times reported. The deal looked clear by mid-week, after the Chicago Newspaper Guild, which represents Sun-Times’...

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• LAT-WaPo Syndication Service Dissolved; LAT Merges Into McClatchy-Tribune Combine

  PaidContent - 2009-10-01

  The Los Angeles Times-Washington Post (NYSE: WPO) News Service, a syndication service formed back in 1962 with more than 600 clients worldwide, is being closed down by the end of this year, and LAT will now become part of McClatchy-Tribune Information Services MCT, a JV of the McClatchy (NYSE:...

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